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unknownseas2021-01-24 10:36 am
bathymetric) wrote in unknownseas2021-01-24 10:36 am
COMMENCE VOYAGE
Fun Fact: Did you know the Atlantic Ocean has a surface area of 41.1 million square miles? No reason.
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There's something uneasy in the air as you come to.
Well, "come to" is an interesting word in this case. It implies waking up, which is not exactly what happens. None of you are in beds, nor are you really asleep in the traditional sense. One moment you're somewhere else, doing something else with your time, and the next? You're somewhere on board a massive cruise ship - maybe lounging on a deck chair by the pool, maybe getting some Gains in the exercise room, maybe enjoying the tasteful décor in the buffet - and you have no idea how you got here or how you might get back. This is not your beautiful house. If you have a beautiful wife, she isn't here.
What you do have, apart from 25 other unlucky souls, is a small smartphone-like device in your pocket with only a handful of things on it: a clock reading 11PM, a pdf of a ticket in your name on a special Atlantic Liners New Year's Eve Cruise, an app labeled Passenger Profiles with some basic information on your traveling companions, and a message:
Welcome aboard, passenger! Please feel free to partake of any of the facilities while you wait for the big event! Remember: when midnight comes, you better make your way to the theatre at the back of Level 1 for the main event! The Captain and the First Mate will be there to take care of you all personally, and to help you ring in the new year in style!
Well, that's a start. But what you do until then, it seems, is up to you!
...
There's something uneasy in the air as you come to.
Well, "come to" is an interesting word in this case. It implies waking up, which is not exactly what happens. None of you are in beds, nor are you really asleep in the traditional sense. One moment you're somewhere else, doing something else with your time, and the next? You're somewhere on board a massive cruise ship - maybe lounging on a deck chair by the pool, maybe getting some Gains in the exercise room, maybe enjoying the tasteful décor in the buffet - and you have no idea how you got here or how you might get back. This is not your beautiful house. If you have a beautiful wife, she isn't here.
What you do have, apart from 25 other unlucky souls, is a small smartphone-like device in your pocket with only a handful of things on it: a clock reading 11PM, a pdf of a ticket in your name on a special Atlantic Liners New Year's Eve Cruise, an app labeled Passenger Profiles with some basic information on your traveling companions, and a message:
Welcome aboard, passenger! Please feel free to partake of any of the facilities while you wait for the big event! Remember: when midnight comes, you better make your way to the theatre at the back of Level 1 for the main event! The Captain and the First Mate will be there to take care of you all personally, and to help you ring in the new year in style!
Well, that's a start. But what you do until then, it seems, is up to you!
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Nooo, it's a New Year thing... Do they not have that, around the world? You just said Hong Kong, but, I figured everywhere's at least a little familiar... Time's Square? They drop a huge fuckoff ball at midnight for some kind of...celebration for not dying, or some shit?
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I heard they recreated that whole area in space, right down to the Statue of Liberty! [she finishes off her soda at record speed, so she's now just juggling the can; she holds it up like it's the Statue, because why not be dramatic] There's always fireworks for all the holidays. Can't say I've ever been there except through TV, though.
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[She seems to have lots of unusual habits?? Or she's just an unusual girl, or-- There's a quick gesticulation with her stand-in soda Statue, a nod.]
The colonies of the Federation are the real seat of government nowadays, so places like old America are pretty much left to the locals. It's the same the world over.
East coast, west coast... It's a big place, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were cowboys running it by now.
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Okaaay, so...there ain't any cowboys back where I'm from, so I'm starting to get the feeling this is one of those...alternate universe things.
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[She seems properly bamboozled by the lack of cowboys, or maybe it's just the inescapable encroachment of alternate universes and branching realities. Seriously, this is above her paygrade.
She copes by flipping open the second soda. Maybe not the best idea in a situation where she's already antsy, but eh.]
Mmm, well, a whole different universe would be someplace else. But I'm guessing there's a lot of Americas, too.
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Yes- uh, yes, American, I'm from Oregon. My point is— no one's ever rebuilt anything in space, where I'm from. And...with all the bullshit going on here, I don't think you're lying. So, either you're on hella drugs, or you're telling the truth.
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Allenby gives a sort of half-laugh, like when you're confronting the tininess of your own existence or maybe just plain existential crisisville. But in a laughing way, with a dash of sugar.]
Well. I mean? So far I've met an android and a guy in a weird blue fur suit and they both just came out of the swimming pool? And there's another guy who might be a robot and a girl with horns... you get the idea.
What I'm saying is, you being American but not properly from America is probably the least of our problems...
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[ Ah. Her first really bad pun. ]